Ravenloft: Prisoners of the Mist

Within the swirling Mist (IC) => Whispers in the Shadows => Local Gossip => Topic started by: emptyanima on November 20, 2016, 06:59:03 PM

Title: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: emptyanima on November 20, 2016, 06:59:03 PM
[Following the funeral and burial of her son, the Comtesse de Cantigny, Edith Bertrand, may often be seen leaving flowers at his graveside. She usually lingers there a while, speaking in hushed but conversational tones.]
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Pagliacci on November 11, 2017, 03:10:29 PM
[Recently, small statuettes of poorly fired clay have been showing up near recent graves. While the firing is poorly done, the statuettes themselves are fairly well detailed, with the faces carefully sculpted with a knife into a peaceful expression. They always appear at night, and only appear on the graves of the recently deceased.]
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Pagliacci on December 03, 2017, 09:30:25 PM
Recently, an occasional small plume of smoke can be seen rising from the rear of the cemetery, where ancient and long forgotten graves lay.

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[Before even entering the tomb it is obvious that it is not abandoned. The dust has been viciously attacked by a broom and pan, the cobwebs swept away. The coffins of stone have been stacked, dusted, and their metal hinges and filigree polished. Effort has been made here, great effort.   

Someone lives here. The table has a simple set of earthen ware, arranged carefully. Nearby, an easel, the paint on it layered, shows a promising landscape of the graveyard outside. In the corner next to the small round table sits a bucket, fresh clay clinging inside.

Tucked neatly past two polished coffins, a sleeping area. The pad on the floor is rough, and several blankets of varying quality lay folded on top of it; next to it, a fire pit, neatly kept, a small hole in the roof as a vent. Books of art and philosophy are stacked nearby.]
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Nekro83 on August 03, 2021, 07:57:31 AM
In the days following the ceremony in memory of the fallen Black Army soldiers, a young Gundarakite girl is often seen tending to the Memorial, cleaning, bringing flowers and occasionally singing songs in Luktar.

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Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: peccavi on December 26, 2021, 01:39:01 AM

[The body of Solange de Sauvre is found before the grave of her parents, grandmother, and husband early one morning. The cause of death appears to be a bullet wound to the head.]
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Agony on March 02, 2022, 10:16:39 PM
In the cemetery just outside Port-a-Lucine a gruesome scene is discovered. A man clad in the garb of a common dockworker is found tied to a chair near one of the outlying buildings.  His throat is slit, but closer inspection reveals that he’s also been disemboweled, blood and viscera spilling outward from his gut onto the grass below.  At his feet is a note that seems to indicate the murder was due to some form of debt, and stuck in the man’s mouth is a mundane card with a grinning wolf’s head on one side.
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: ChrisRanHimselfOver on June 13, 2022, 10:23:08 PM
Of late a man in black and grey and openly wearing a battered medallion bearing the symbol of the Eternal Order has been seen cleaning grave markers within the cemetery. He seems to ignore those that are well-maintained and focuses most of his effort on the neglected graves in the back.
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Neuwwwo on June 19, 2022, 03:24:04 PM
Much like the earlier presence, someone takes care of the neglected and jagged headstones, bringing flowers and candlesticks.

Spoiler: Floral Arrangements • show
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Beyond the trees, further than the poorest of the poor; the unmarked graves of criminals are given marks.

Spoiler: Graves of Criminals • show
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Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: bunnie on August 27, 2022, 06:17:42 PM
Sequestered away in a less-travelled corner of the cemetery rests a small shrine, and by it sits a thin form veiled in black. A singular bag of luggage is settled by her propped up form.
As the hours pass, she sits. As the dawn comes, she sits. The sound of sobbing carries on the wind..
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: bunnie on August 28, 2022, 10:26:07 PM
After only hours of respite, the same woman returns to the shrine; pretty white dress staining as time is further spent. Candles are relit, the shrine is tended, and eventually the mournful wailing returns.
At times she is noted as wandering through the cemetery like a ghost, lost.
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Madame Trousers Son on September 03, 2022, 06:57:24 PM
A solemn ceremony as the Gendarmerie Nationale honours one of its own fallen...

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Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Devil's Moon on May 15, 2023, 06:48:38 PM
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Over the course of a few days, mourners begin to report the arrival of a colorful and ornate caravan in the environs of the cemetery, not far from the mortuary. The man it belongs to is said to frequently enter the building with murder victims and to leave without them...
Title: Re: Port-á-Lucine - Cimetière des Âmes-Sereines
Post by: Wu Tang Dan on May 16, 2023, 12:05:51 AM
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[Late one evening, a passerby stops by the grave of Laura Escher and leaves a bouquet of pink flowers.]